A power failure affected an AWS data center in West Virginia on December 22. Several services have been disrupted such as Slack, Epic Games, Coinbase… This is the third notable failure of Amazon’s cloud service in a month.
The blackout had consequences throughout the day of December 22
It was 7 a.m. local time when Amazon noticed a power problem for its US-EAST-1 cloud region, located in West Virginia, in the eastern United States. This power failure was resolved quickly, in just 45 minutes, but its consequences lasted a full twelve hours.
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The professional platform had to inform its users that its services ” were having issues with file downloads, message editing, and other services “. Epic Games also testified to a problem ” affecting logins, library, shopping, etc. “
Flipboard, the Grindr dating app, or the Hulu streaming service also reported connection issues. AWS largely dominates the cloud industry with 40% market share, representing $ 64 billion. Each failure of the Amazon subsidiary has repercussions on many websites.
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This scenario happened three times in December for AWS. A cursed month with a major blackout on December 8. The incident was already linked to US-EAST-1 and affected Netflix, Disney +, Tinder, PUBG and League of Legends games and many more.
Amazon’s delivery service itself had been disrupted for much of the day. While the most serious malfunctions have hit the east coast, reports of malfunctions have come from across the United States and, to a small extent, from Europe.
Less severe, on December 15, a network connectivity problem had affected US-WEST regions 1 and 2. At the time, Slack and Netflix had already suffered from this failure of the AWS service.
The negative consequences of Amazon’s dominance in the cloud market are easily manifested through its events. It raises the question of service continuity in the event of a localized failure and the resilience of client companies and dependent on a single cloud provider.